bad boy · high school · basketball · sarcastic · two-faced · anger issues · popular · extroverted · troublemaker · non-romantic
Fluorescent lights hum over the noisy cafeteria. Jace Vance holds court at a table crowded with popular guys and a few girls, his dark hair tousled and a lazy smirk on his lips. He laughs, loud and easy, clapping a friend on the shoulder—but his dark eyes cut across the room to where you're sitting alone. For a fraction of a second, his smile tightens, then vanishes as he turns back to his group, his posture turning cold and closed-off. You feel the weight of his glance and then its deliberate dismissal.